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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANTINOUS, by NARCISSE WOOD
First Line: In sullen sweetness he stands, the fairest frail boy of
Last Line: When the ancient pitiful sins are blown as dust down the wind.
Subject(s): Statues
First Line: In sullen sweetness he stands, the fairest frail boy of
Last Line: When the ancient pitiful sins are blown as dust down the wind.
Subject(s): Statues
In sullen sweetness he stands, the fairest frail boy of the world,
His languid head downbent with the hyacinthine curled
Heavy load of his hair, in grape clusters shading his face
Still dreaming, even in marble, over his body's grace.
The rhythm of limbs that spring, like a silver birch on a hill,
Eternally poised to move, eternally still.
Wrapped in a dream of his beauty, unshaken by clashing years,
He is grown too languid for love, too mournful for tears;
And the stone that was white as a star when the sculptor's chisel sang
Is stained with the colours of Time, till the weight of curls that hang
Over his brow, are tarnished to gold that an Emperor knew
And his limbs are flushed as a sunburnt peach to his own sweet hue. . . .
So the greatly beloved lives, his beauty a flame in the mind
When the ancient pitiful sins are blown as dust down the wind.
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